In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women

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The efficacy and risks of different birth control options are dramatically different today from what they once were thanks to scientific advances and increased awareness of STDs. In the most comprehensive book on birth control since the 1970s, women's health activist Laura Eldridge discusses the history, scientific advances and practical uses of everything from condoms to the male pill and Plan B. Whether the reader is looking for their first birth control method or wants to know more about their current choice, there is no more comprehensive guide than this.

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"Straightforward, nonjudgmental, and honest Eldridge walks readers through the thought process within her critiques, which allows the reader to become a smart consumer of contraceptive options [Her] fresh voice was apparent on every page of In Our Control, and evoked the pro-woman, community-oriented feel of a volume of Our Bodies, Ourselves."Gwen Emmons, Feminist Review

"I couldn't put In Our Control down. Reading Laura Eldridge's history about contraception blew my mind. We cannot allow pharmaceutical companies to endanger women lives! This book is about to regalvanize the women's health revolution!"Betty Dodson

"Laura Eldridge's new bookIn Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women(Seven Stories Press, 2010) isn't kidding with that subtitle. The last time I remember reading so much detail about contraceptive options was poring overOur Bodies, Ourselves when I was in my 20s This is women's health activism at its best."Elizabeth Kissling,Ms. Magazine

Author Bio

LAURA ELDRIDGE is a womens health writer and activist. She is the author of In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women and the co-author of The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause. She livesin Brooklyn, New York.